ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,741, issued on March 17, was assigned to HUXLEY MEDICAL INC. (Atlanta).

"Systems and processes for detecting oxygen saturation and compensating for skin tone variation" was invented by Daniel Burnham (Atlanta), Behnam Molavi (Redmond, Wash.), Mohsen Safaei Mohammadabadi (Smyrna, Ga.), Pannaga Sameer Kaushik Gummuluru (Kennedale, Texas) and Matias Teixeira Prates (Kennesaw, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for optimizing the detection of a patient's heartbeats, which may be useful in detection of the patient's oxygen saturation, as well as systems and processes for improving a...